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New exhibition devoted to Michelangelo and late Renaissance Florence
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Dateline: CHICAGO
More than four centuries ago, a melancholy young nobleman from the
Medici family, Francesco I, second Grand Duke of Tuscany, had a secret
chamber built at one of his palaces in Florence. He filled it with
exquisite art works, jewels, natural curios and scientific specimens.
Francesco spent days at a time hiding from the world in what he called
his "studiolo" or study. Other rulers of the day who had similar vaults
called them "wonder cabinets."
The curators of an exhibition that opened Saturday at the Art Institute
of Chicago, ...
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